Effectively Wild Episode 98: Zack Greinke and the Dodgers’ Bottomless Bankroll

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2012

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss the Zack Greinke signing and the Dodgers’ astronomical payroll with Mike Petriello of Dodgers blog Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness.

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0:00.0	You can't do this big guy money, we need money!
0:05.0	Carlton, you know we can afford this. You're the one who helped me invest.
0:08.0	My money makes money. We're rich!
0:14.0	That's right, we are rich!
0:18.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 89, 98.
0:22.0	It's episode 98.
0:24.0	Effectively wild, the daily podcast from baseball,
0:27.0	I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh.
0:30.0	Today we are joined by Mike Petriello of MikeSosha's
0:35.0	tragic illness and fangraphs.com. Mike, how are you doing?
0:40.0	Very well guys, how's it going?
0:42.0	It's going great, we've had you on because of your connection to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
0:48.0	The Dodgers this weekend signed Zach Rankie, the top free agent,
0:53.0	pitcher on the market to this winter.
0:56.0	They also agreed to terms with Korean Lefty Hian Jin Ryu.
1:02.0	And Keith Law wrote today the Dodgers have the best team on paper in the
1:07.0	division at this point not just due to their offseason but due to the potential
1:11.0	to have Matt Kemp fully healthy for the first time since April.
1:14.0	The San Francisco Giants have moved to bring back the same team
1:17.0	that won the World Series but haven't upgraded the roster anywhere with very little
1:21.0	upside from their lineup at this point.
1:24.0	The Dodgers also have a record setting 225 million niche.
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